diesel VS prisma-client-rust

Compare diesel vs prisma-client-rust and see what are their differences.

diesel

A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust (by diesel-rs)

prisma-client-rust

Type-safe database access for Rust (by Brendonovich)
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diesel prisma-client-rust
89 12
13,281 1,927
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9.8 5.3
8 days ago about 1 month ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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diesel

Posts with mentions or reviews of diesel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-20.
  • drizzle + sqlite in Tauri App
    6 projects | dev.to | 20 Mar 2025
    Tauri's backend is in Rust, so I always thought the only way to use sqlite ORM in a Tauri app is with projects like diesel or prisma-client-rust, which could be hard because they are in rust. What is even harder is sqlite db encryption. Both of the 2 ORMs don't support cipher encryption, thus I had to write raw sql queries in kunkun Example Maintaining raw sql queries is a nightmare to me, especially when it comes to schema migration. I have to rely on thorough testing to make sure everything is correct. There is no type checking.
  • Toasty, an Async ORM for Rust
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Oct 2024
    I think you are talking past each others. Preventing N+1 by doing lazy fetching and having synchronous / asynchronous API are orthogonal issues. Async API must not block the thread/event loop when the data loading is being done.

    Diesel hasn't been providing an async API for reason told in this thread: https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/issues/399

    The situation might change some day though, once async support in the core language and surrounding ecosystem gets stronger.

  • Show HN: Rust Web Framework
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Oct 2024
    I would kinda expect REST framework to be able to generate Swagger (aka OpenAPI) definitions out of the box. That's one of the killer features if FastAPI in my opinion.

    Also, I don't really understand what is the reason for creating your own ORM instead of integrating with, let's say diesel.rs [0] and what is the reason for inventing your own template language instead of just picking own of the most popular existing template engines [1].

    Other than that this project looks really interesting and I will definitely keep an eye on it.

    [0] https://diesel.rs/

    [1] https://crates.io/categories/template-engine

  • One Year of Rust in Production
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2024
    > sqlx — a compile time, type safe SQL wrapper that runs your queries against a real DB

    SQLx seems like end game stuff at first glance, but after trying it out for a while I eventually decided that it wasn't for me. Writing dynamic/conditional queries just sucks and there isn't any good solution. On the DX side, completion, formatting/linting, highlighting is also non-existent.

    I eventually settled on [diesel][0] (a query builder-ish ORM) and I'm loving it so far. Its [performance][1] crushes every other SQL libraries, including SQLx (very counter-intuitive, huh?). It's technically an ORM, but the query builder is very flexible and you can also extend it with your own traits. It got its warts, but it's the most tolerable SQL rust library I've found so far.

    [0]: https://diesel.rs

  • Rainfrog – a database management TUI for Postgres
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Sep 2024
    Diesel has support for MySQL, Sqlite and Postgres which can easily execute raw queries

    https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel

  • Rust in Illumos
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Sep 2024
    Here is another thing worth sharing. Database integration tests on Bazel used to be difficult. Ultimately I've found an elegant solution:

    https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/blob/master/examples/pos...

    The parallel testing with dangling transactions isn't Diesel or Postgres specific. You can do the same with pure SQL and any relational DB that supports transactions.

    For CI, BuildBuddy can spin up Docker in a remote execution host, then you write a custom util that tests if the DB container is already running and if not starts one, out that in a test and then let Bazel execute all integration tests in parallel. For some weird reasons, all tests have to be in one file per insolated remote execution host, so I created one per table.

    Incremental builds that compile, tests, build and publish images usually complete in about one minute. That's thanks to the 80 Core BuildBuddy cluster with remote cache.

    GitHub took about an hour back in April when the repo was half in size.

    There is real gain in terms of developer velocity.

  • Top 10 Rusty Repositories for you to start your Open Source Journey
    11 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023
    7. Diesel
  • People who use rust and postgres in production along with RDS proxy, what do you do?
    1 project | /r/rust | 15 Nov 2023
    Both seem nice. However, both of them rely very heavily on prepared statements. Unfortunately, using prepared statements is a no-go when you use connection poolers like pgbouncer, or in my case AWS RDS proxy. A discussion in Diesel indicates that disel is not going to provide any support for disabling prepared stements (https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/discussions/3575), and a discussion on sqlx hints that disabling prepared statements is possible, but I haven't found any documentation or examples for it.
  • The diesel project is looking for help
    1 project | /r/rust | 4 Nov 2023
    In addition we are experimenting with prebuild versions of diesel-cli that can be installed directly. We have a set of prebuilt binaries here. We are interested in feedback about how the provided binaries work on your platform.
  • cargo-dist pre-release looking for feedback!
    2 projects | /r/rust | 20 Oct 2023
    First of all thanks for making this great tool. As it happens I currently toy around with using it for diesel-cli releases. See the WIP PR here. I think diesel-cli is a good example of a tool that depends on system libraries as it needs to link native database drivers, so this new release is welcome. Defining the dependencies seems to allow easily building things on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and x86_64-apple-darwin. It seems to pick up everything in the right way there.

prisma-client-rust

Posts with mentions or reviews of prisma-client-rust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-20.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing diesel and prisma-client-rust you can also consider the following projects:

sea-orm - 🐚 An async & dynamic ORM for Rust

diesel_async - Diesel async connection implementation

r2d2 - A generic connection pool for Rust

prisma-engines - 🚂 Engine components of Prisma ORM

sqlx - 🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

ormlite - An ORM in Rust for developers that love SQL.

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